scriptygoddess

For a long time I resisted the urge to put ads on the site. I'm sure you've noticed I finally caved in this past year. I've tried to keep it relatively unobtrusive. In one case I was contacted directly to put an ad up on one of my category pages in the content area. I didn't want to put it at the top above the content. Ideally – I wanted it put in the middle in a separate div block, maybe after 3 or so posts, but only on the first category page. Here is the code I used to get that to work…

First, above the loop I added this:
<?php
$count = 0;
?>
This is to count the number of posts we're on.

Then just after the end of the loop call (<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>) but before you start the code for the posts, I added this:
<?php
if ($wp_query->get("page") || $wp_query->get("paged")) {
$onFirstPage = false;
} else {
$onFirstPage = true;
}
?>
That bit of code I got basically from this post on the support boards.

Then to determine if we should call the text for the ad (in this case I wanted it displayed only on category id #29), and to then display the ad…
<?php
if (is_category('29') && $count == 2 && $onFirstPage) {
?>
...ADVERTISEMENT TEXT OR IMAGE GOES HERE...
<?
}
$count++;
?>